Stan James football and Horse Racing Betting Review

Online Bookmaker Stan James offer a great welcome bonus for new customers to their sports betting services, by treating new clients to the offer of a £25 free bet. All that you have to do is open a new account with Stan James, make a deposit and when you make your initial bet on a new account, the online bookmaker will match that first bet up to the value of £25 (once that bet has been settled). Think about that for a moment, you could have a free £25 to have a punt on the new season of the Premier League football betting. If you want to look at some sections where to go to in order to spend your bonus, then a stop into the Stan James Ante Post Promo’s for football betting is well worth a look to add some variety to your betting. Here are just a couple of the great value, but longer priced bets in that section to take a look at.

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Chelsea, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Marseille, Inter Milan and Rangers 130/1 is one of those bets which is out there a bit, but these are the best teams in their respective leagues. If there were to be a complete repeat of last year, then you are able to get some worthwhile odds on it happening at Stan James

Last Years 2nd Place To Go One Better
Man Utd, Leeds and Celtic 90/1 backs last year’s runner’s-up to all go one better.

But in terms of the 2010/11 season of the Barclays Premier League, you can always invest that welcome bonus of up to £25 on more familiar markets such as the Outright Winner. Stan James have Chelsea penciled in as favourites to win the league again at 13/8, while Manchester United are priced at 9/4 to reclaim the Premier League crown. If you think new Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson is going to work his magic, then Liverpool are out at 12/1 to win the league.

The Community Shield is the curtain raiser on the new domestic season, and kicks off Sunday, August 8th with the Chelsea v Manchester United fixture. Stan James have a great selection of markets available for this one as well, as they always do when you go into their submarkets for a match. In order to navigate your way through the football betting at Stan James, just call up a league, and you will be presented with the list of forthcoming matches. Then you can either click on the prices to add straight to your betting slip, or you can explore the number of further bets on the match. You will clearly see the total number of those further bets on a match you can make, next to the listing of the fixed odds. Information about the match in question is clear, with the time, date and TV listing available, plus any other further information about the match that may be relevant. In the case of the Community Shield, alongside the fixed odds, there are currently 28 other bet selections to chose from.

Chelsea v Manchester United Community Shield Outright Odds
Chelsea are 13/10
Draw is 23/10
Manchester United are 15/8

Those are your fixed odds prices for the Community Shield, but if you navigate your way on through to the extra bets, you can find markets such as Double Result, Correct Score, Handicaps, Draw No Bet, Total Goals plus First Team To Score and many more. Stan James are great with their sub market betting when it comes to the big Premier League football betting matches, and are well worth spending some time looking over, as they can really enhance your betting experience on a match. The Stan James football betting section of their sports book is excellent, and very clear and easy to use. Leagues and tournaments from across the world are covered, and at the moment you can find some great deals on Ante Post football betting ahead of the new season. These are the kind of things which will need to be jumped on quickly, as the new domestic league gets underway on August 14th. Stan James also offer a Pick Five Accumulator section on their sports book, which builds rapid accumulator suggestions for you, and these are well worth a peek when the season starts. Stan James delivers expertly with its football betting services, and as any avid punter will know, the studying of form is often key in landing a winner. Stan James have you covered there with their sports statistics service, plus you can follow live action with their football match centre and football commentaries and live scores.

As most punters will know, Stan James is synonymous with horse racing betting, being such a trusted and established name in the UK industry. Their online horse racing coverage, is just what you would expect from the bookmaker, and that is excellent. Right off the bat, just like the football betting markets, Stan James throws out Horse Racing, Ante Post Horses and Specials on the Horse Racing, plus have separate sections of the sports book for US and Australian Horse Racing. You are not going to miss out on any race action with Stan James as your bookie. But as good as the prices and listings of information for the runners and riders are in each race, Stan James extend their horse racing services a little further. You can pick up commentaries on the races, plus you can watch live races on your pc, as long as you make a qualifying bet for a race, which is a minimum of a £1 single, or any monetary equivalent in a forecast etc. All of your horse racing betting needs are in one place, and with one of the most impressive horse form and results sections on the internet, along with Daily Naps and Tips, you really can’t go wrong with Stan James for your betting. Just to top it all off, you can of course get Best Odds Guaranteed with the bookie. Which means that if your horse has a great starting price than an early board price you took on it, Stan James will pay out on the bigger starting price if your horse comes in. So, if football’s not your thing, then you can always use your generous welcome bonus at the races, or any sport in their extensive book.